Hi all,
Like all people in management roles, my life has 3 dimensions (+time but this is not of concern here):
- the many people I work with
- the many projects we work on
- the many meetings, discussions, etc we have, which may talk about one or more projects with one or more people involved - let me call that context
Since tagging people in items is both easy and mostly sparse, itâs not a big hassle to manage it with each item as needed and searching for @john mention returns a view of what John either said or did or should do.
This leaves 2 dimensions to manage, which means choosing one as your primary dimension (the one you will use to organise your documents) and having to manage the other one through tags⌠which is a lot of housekeeping!
Consider:
- letâs say I choose âcontextâ as my primary dimension, meaning I create one document for each new meeting; then for each item in the meeting, I have to manually tag a project name to make sure I can recover the âprojectâ view - imagine a meeting about just one project, this means I have to redundantly tag each item in the meeting!
- letâs say I choose âprojectâ as my primary dimension, meaning I maintain one document for each project; then if Iâm in a meeting about multiple projects and switch between my documents to insert items relevant to each project, I have to invent some kind of tagging convention to be able to trace each new item to the context in which it appeared, i.e. my current meeting, so that I can say in the future from which context any request/remark originated, and maybe follow on it in the right forum
Both cases may be solved by what Iâd say is an optional dimension to be called âContextâ: when creating an item, its âContextâ by default should be the last Context used, so that e.g. when starting a meeting you set Context as âCapex Project Review - May 10, 2021â and every bullet you write from then is tied to the Context, and when viewing/editing an item, Context should be shown and preserved.
In the end, Context would be kind of a âsuper tagâ that, once set and until disabled, is added automagically to all the items you create, and that would be searchable (i.e. return all items in all documents with context C).
Of course if there are workarounds I am not aware of, Iâm interested!
Kind regards,